August 2nd, 2012

Dan Cathy, president of the fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A, made news last month when he told the Baptist Press that the company supported “the Biblical definition of the family unit” — in other words, that it opposed same-sex marriage legislation. Some Democratic mayors, including Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel and Boston’s Thomas Menino, issued statements they would oppose the chicken chain’s expansion in their cities (the legal justification behind such a move wasn’t spelled out, though the mayors got the press they sought).…